When I was about 13 or 14 years old, I was a little interested in cryptography (which is, after all, an interesting field). I learnt quite a lot since that time (it has been about 8 years since then), ...

So this was bouncing off our webmail server for the last couple days, I took it home today to look it through. Any ideas as to what is does/is/attempting to do? I have been looking through and would ...

Recently, while looking at some Perl CGI files, I came across this. I am not familiar enough with Perl to know exactly what it means, but I did attempt to base64 decode the string to no effect. Can ...

We are using a web application on cloud. I need a small clarification. We are using Perl with Apache. I see a following issue here for the below scenario. I need some inputs of whether this is most ...

I'm looking for good tools for analyzing and/or detecting security issues in a large software project written in Perl 5. It could be static or dynamic analysis. I know that Perl is undecidable, but ...

I have a cronned perl script that connects to our database and does various kinds of lookups and integrity checks. The original script was written by someone long ago. My job is to make some changes ...

I found three (identical) .cgi files in the "cgi-bin" directory of a hacked website account. My knowledge of Perl is insufficient to decode them. I see some regexp with code execution, but I don't see ...

One of my server's web accounts got hacked a couple of times. Each time someone downloaded a Perl script via some phpBB forum and used the Perl script to do whatever they wanted to do (mostly connect ...

One of my servers just had the memory exhausted by a load of Perl scripts, we use plesk and they seem to have appeared under the /var/www/vhosts/domainexample.com/cgi-bin/ directory, I managed to stop ...